Marwa Daoudy (Washington DC Georgetown University)

The Origins of the Syrian Conflict

Climate Change and Human Security

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Policymakers, academics and the media have claimed that climate change causes conflicts. This study presents an innovative framework to evaluate this theory, asking whether climate change caused the conflict in Syria. Its argument and findings are essential for practitioners and scholars of climate change, security, and Middle Eastern politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 148mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781108466820
• ISBN-10: 1108466826
• Artikelnr.: 58502060

Autorenporträt

Marwa Daoudy is Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC. The co-organizer of a major climate change conference at Princeton University, she has been a policy advisor and consultant for government agencies including the UNESCO-World Water Assessment Program, and contributed to the establishment of the Oxford Water Network, a research-led project which focuses on improving water security across the globe. She is the author of The Water Divide between Syria, Turkey and Iraq: Negotiation, Security and Power Asymmetry (2005), which was awarded the Ernest Lémonon prize by the Académie Française.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Context: History, Geography, Security: 1. Climate change and
the Syrian revolution; 2. The many faces of environmental security; 3. When
geography rules history; Part II. Human-Environmental Climate Security: 4.
Rules of ideology and policy: from Ba'athism to the liberal age; 5.
Vulnerability and resilience: human-environmental climate security (HECS)
in Syria; 6. Syria: a (hi)story of vulnerability, resistance, and
resilience.